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Informationen zum Autor Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller Klappentext In Migrants and City-Making Ay¿e Çälar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Grounding their work in comparative ethnographies of three cities struggling to regain their former standing-Mardin, Turkey; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Halle/Saale, Germany-Çälar and Glick Schiller challenge common assumptions that migrants exist on society's periphery, threaten social cohesion, and require integration. Instead Çälar and Glick Schiller explore their multifaceted role as city-makers, including their relationships to municipal officials, urban developers, political leaders, business owners, community organizers, and social justice movements. In each city Çälar and Glick Schiller met with migrants from around the world; attended cultural events, meetings, and religious services; and patronized migrant-owned businesses, allowing them to gain insights into the ways in which migrants build social relationships with non-migrants and participate in urban restoration and development. In exploring the changing historical contingencies within which migrants live and work, Çälar and Glick Schiller highlight how city-making invariably involves engaging with the far-reaching forces that dispossess people of their land, jobs, resources, neighborhoods, and hope. Zusammenfassung Ayse Çaglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the lived experiences of migrants in three cities struggling to regain their former standing, showing how they live and work in their new cities in ways that require them to negotiate the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Multiscalar City-Making and Emplacement: Processes, Concepts, and Methods 1 1. Introducing Three Cities: Similarities despite Difference 33 2. Welcoming Narratives: Small Migrant Businesses within Multiscalar Restructuring 95 3. They Are Us: Urban Sociabillites with Multiscalar Power 121 4. Social Citizenship of the Dispossessed: Embracing Global Christianity 147 5. "Searching Its Future in Its Past": The Multiscalar Emplacement of Returnees 177 Conclusion. Time, Space, and Agency 209 Notes 227 References 239 Index 275...
